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Achievements of the National Plant Genome Initiative and New Horizons in Plant Biology
T-DNA Transferred DNA from Agrobacterium.
Targeting Induced Local Lesions in Genomes (TILLING) A method for identifying mutations in a specific target gene.
Transcriptomics The study of the full complement of activated genes, transcripts, and mRNA in a given tissue at any particular time.
Translational genomics Translation of genomic findings from experimental model species to crop species
Transposon A segment of DNA that moves, jumps, and can be integrated into many different sites along a chromosome.
